Brady Lab - People

Current Lab Members

	Kaisa Kajala Postdoctoral Fellow (Finnish Cultural Foundation) kkajala@ucdavis.edu Follow @kaisakajala	Cell and tissue type specific gene expression in the tomato root.
	Sharon Gray Postdoctoral Fellow (NSF) sbgray@ucdavis.edu Follow @sharon_b_gray	Effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide on development and cell type-specific gene expression of tomato roots.
	Concepcion Manzano Postdoctoral Fellow (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship) Follow @CManzanoF	Molecular mechanisms controlling endodermis and exodermis differentiation in tomato roots
	Allie Gaudinier PhD Student agaudinier@ucdavis.edu Follow @a_gaudinier	Develop enhanced yeast 1 hybrid assays for plants. Synthesize a GATEWAY^® TF stele resource.
	Gina Turco PhD Student gmturco@ucdavis.edu Follow @sudogenes	Transcriptional regulation of secondary cell wall biosynthesis .
	Michelle Tang PhD Student Co-supervised: Siobhan Brady/Dan Kliebenstein mitang@ucdavis.edu Follow @melletang	Constructing a modular network of transcriptional regulation of primary metabolism.
	Don Gibson PhD Student dongibson@ucdavis.edu Follow @DNAgibson	Identifying genes controlling Arabidopsis and Tomato root development.
	Joel Rodriguez-Medina PhD Student	go GRNs!
	Anne-Maarit Bagman Lab Manager ambagman@ucdavis.edu	Mapping plant gene regulatory networks.
	Niba Nirmal Undergraduate	Analyzing the responses to water stresses in root systems of the model crop species, Solanum lycopersicum, (domesticated tomato) cultivar M82, and the more drought tolerant wild tomato species, Solanum pennellii. Using confocal microscopy to qualify lignin and suberin concentrations. Identifying genes responsible for suberin biosynthesis and regulation using CRISPR/Cas9.
	Reina Marie Sanz Undergraduate	Anatomical changes in tomato roots in response to water stress. Yeast one hybrid assays.
	Alan Rodriguez Undergraduate	Selection of transgenic S. lycopersicum cv. M82 and S. pennellii lines, and generating DNA sequencing libraries for T-DNA capture for identification of insert number and location.
	Hannah Vahldick Undergraduate	Identification of transcription factor-binding motifs within the promoters of genes associated with secondary cell wall deposition.
	Ayumi Gothberg Undergraduate	Tomato root responses to water stress. Tomato root gene expression profiling.

Recent Lab Visitors

	Michitaro Shibata Visting Postdoctoral Fellow	Gene regulatory network for the root hair development of Arabidopsis.
	Gwen Swinnen Visting PhD Student 2015	Learning protocols for tomato: hairy root cultures, CRISPR/Cas9, INTACT, RNA-seq libraries.
	Peter Etchells Visiting Independent Scholar 2013-2014 Follow @peter_etchells	Exploring mechanisms that regulate plant vascular development. For more information see: https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/directory/staff/?mode=staff&id=11639
	Nicholas Provart P.I. on Sabbatical at Brady Lab 2013-2014	Using bioinformatics tools to identify novel aspects of plant biology. Some tools developed by my lab at the University of Toronto (http://labs.csb.utoronto.ca/provart) are available at the Bio-Analytic Resource: (https://www.facebook.com/BioAnalyticResource).
	Hitoshi Endo Visiting PhD Student 2014 and 2012	Role of VND's in vascular development.
	Wu Rui Visiting Graduate Student 2013	Learning transient gene expression in tobacco.
	Yuan Yuan Liu Visiting Graduate Student 2013	Learning transient gene expression in tobacco using important root development genes.
	Erin Sparks Visiting Post-doc 2013	Exploring root gene regulatory networks.
	Atsushi Kato Visiting PhD Student 2013	Drought tolerance in watermelon.

High School Summer Interns

Joyce Zhou

St. Francis High School
Mountain View, CA
2012

Verification of interactions between TFs and promoters of PRC2 (Polycomb Repressive Complex 2) in root vasculature.

Former Lab Members

	Sam Rusoff Undergraduate	Developmental Anatomy and Morphology of Tomato Roots in Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
	An Nguyen Undergraduate	Transcriptional regulation of the tomato root and shoot in response to high levels of CO2
	Richard Ngo Former Undergraduate	Investigating transcriptional regulation of primary and secondary metabolites in Arabidopsis thaliana.
	Steven Vitales Undergraduate	Maintenance of transgenic S. lycopersicum cv. M82 and S. pennellii lines.
	Ted Toal PhD Student twtoal@ucdavis.edu	Identifying genetic loci responsible for regulating gravitropic setpoint angle. Developing putative gene regulatory network controlling setpoint angle in both tomato and Arabidopsis and studying evolutionary divergence. Performing RNAseq data analysis to identify eQTL in tomato roots regulating root architectural traits.
	Miguel de Lucas Postdoctoral Fellow (HFSP) mdelucas@ucdavis.edu Follow @mdelucas80	Interconnection between transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in controlling cell identity.
	Barbara Waring Undergraduate	Effect of T-DNA of Agrobacterium rhizogenes on tomato roots.
	Tracy (Jiawen) Zeng Undergraduate	Cell and tissue specific gene expression in the tomato root: genotyping and construct cloning.
	Mallorie Taylor PhD Student maltaylor@ucdavis.edu	Mapping root secondary cell wall networks in space and time.

Mily Ron

Specialist

mron@ucdavis.edu

Characterization of tomato root development.

Identification and characterization of tomato root QTLs and eQTLs.

	Sonja Winte Junior Specialist	Mapping gene regulatory networks using enhanced yeast 1 hybrid assays: promoter cloning.
	Zachary Reynado Undergraduate	Characterizing tomato root phenotypes and genetic interactions controlling them.
	Clara Williams Undergraduate	Investigating the role of PXY signalling in vascular development.
	Yasaswi (Yash) Vengalasetti Undergraduate	Growing and genotyping Arabidopsis thaliana SALK lines for homozygous insertions.
	Aura Ferreiro Undergraduate	Characterizing root PRC2 (Polycomb Repressive Complex 2) gene expression.
	Jessica Foret Lab Manager jforet@carnegiescience.edu	Mapping gene regulatory networks using enhanced yeast 1 hybrid assays in Arabidopsis.
	Jasmine Garcha Undergraduate	Characterizing genetic interactions between tomato root development loci.
	Sehra Rahmany Undergraduate	Cell and tissue type specific gene expression in the tomato root: construct cloning, plant maintenance and genotyping.
	Helen Masson Undergraduate	Cell and tissue type specific gene expression in the tomato root: construct cloning and promoter activity studies.
	Veanna Fong Undergraduate	Characterizing root PRC2 (Polycomb Repressive Complex 2) gene expression.
	Diem Chau Undergraduate	Characterizing genetic interactions between tomato root development loci.
	Quynh Dinh Undergraduate	Agrobacterium rhizogenes transformation of tomato roots.
	Duy Nguyen Undergraduate
	Adi Chatow Undergraduate
	Vasudha Chaudhan Undergraduate
	Ivan Hernandez Undergraduate
	Michael Dorrity Lab Manager dorrity@u.washington.edu	Creation of an RNA sequence library for tomato root gene expression analysis. Identification and characterization of root growth QTLs.
	Kristine Santos Undergraduate
	Li Pu Former Postdoc Postdoc, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California ucdpuli@gmail.com
	Corey (Mac) Harada Former Software Assistant haradacm@gmail.com
	Trung Nguyen Masters student, San Jose State, California, Biotechnology Graduated UC Davis, Microbiology, 2011 stvnguyen@ucdavis.edu
	Kimanh Vo Student, University of the Pacific: Thomas J Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Stockton, California, PharmD program kimvo@ucdavis.edu
	Da Hae Kim Former Junior Specialist Employed at R&D center at Boryung Pharmaceuticals, Korea dhnkim86@gmail.com
	Justin Greenberg Student, Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, California
	Brandon Bireley Former Lab Manager Student, Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, California